We speak to many customers who have all-flash based storage solutions to cut the time it takes for specific processes to complete. In many, many cases the reductions were dramatic, often going from multiple hours to dozens of minutes. Users…
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Business Outcome Driven Storage
The new mantra for IT is to focus the technology and services their data centers provide on business outcomes. That concept seems more easily applied to front-line and customer-facing applications, like customer relationship management, decision support and Web servers that…
Tagged with: DRAM, Flash, HDS, Hierarchical Storage Management, Hitachi Data Systems, HSM, ILM, Information Lifecycle Management, NAND, NVM, performance, SSD, Virtual machine
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SlideShare – The Future of Enterprise Flash in 2015
TLC Flash, 3D NAND, NVM and Hybrid Memory Arrays are the four big changes coming to memory based storage in 2015 that enterprises need to be prepared for. The technologies promise to dramatically reduce the cost of flash storage while…
Tagged with: 3D NAND, DRAM, Hybrid Memory, NAND, Non-volatile memory, NVM, Tegile, TLC Flash
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Posted in Slideshare
What impacts All-Flash Storage Performance
There are a number of factors that impact the performance of an All-Flash or Hybrid storage system. These systems are all based on the same basic foundation, flash memory acting as storage. In the hard drive era, inefficient software and…
The Future of Enterprise Flash in 2015
TLC Flash, 3D NAND, NVM and Hybrid Memory Arrays are the four big changes coming to memory based storage in 2015 that enterprises need to be prepared for. The technologies promise to dramatically reduce the cost of flash storage while…
Tagged with: 3D NAND, DRAM, Hybrid Memory, NAND, Non-volatile memory, NVM, Tegile, TLC Flash
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Posted in Webinar
Will the All-Flash Array Market go away?
Recently HDS’s Hu Yoshida wrote in his blog that he thinks the all-flash array market will go away. I very often find myself agreeing with Hu, he’s a sharp guy and I respect his point of view. As an example,…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Array, Compression, DRAM, Efficiency, Flash, Hard Disk Array, MLC, RAID, SLC, TLC, Virtualization
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Why You Should Consider Server Caching for Virtualization
Many organizations are considering flash caching as a cost-effective way to accelerate application workloads. The challenge is virtual infrastructure planners need to sift through a myriad of flash caching options available on the market. One of the most popular flash…
Tagged with: Cache, Cache Acceleration, Density, DRAM, Hypervisor, Intel, NAS, performance, SAN, Virtual machine, Virtualization
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IBM Announces Memory Channel Storage
At Storage Switzerland we have been covering the move to memory channel storage for the last six months. It is the next logical upgrade from drive-attached and PCIe-attached flash storage. By putting the flash directly on the memory bus traditional…
Designing Enterprise-class Multi-Tenant Storage
Cloud Providers and enterprises must be able to guarantee performance to specific applications or groups of applications. They also need ways to distribute some of their storage management workload directly to the users or ‘interests’ they support. In the cloud…
Tagged with: Cloud, Cloud Providers, DRAM, Enterprise, GUI, LUN, Multi-Tenant, RAID, Zadara
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Overcoming The Flash Storage Latency Challenge
The removal of latency is a critical part to delivering more fully on the flash performance promise. No matter how fast the flash technology becomes, the latency of its connection to the CPU is a key stumbling block in achieving…
Tagged with: DIMM, DRAM, Flash, Latency, PCI Express, SanDisk, SCSI, Solid-state drive, SSD
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